Warden Abbey

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(Provided by Sexton Blake) ....We were really impressed with Warden Abbey. The bedroom is spectacularly large - even the nice photo in the book doesn't do it justice. The attic room is workmanlike with lots of beams and a way out on to the roof. Downstairs there is a smallish kitchen and a living room/dining room with a lovely big fireplace. Along with many other landmarks the log book is full of tales of woe on the firemaking front - the local supplies are a bit damp so don't forget an axe and you might consider a bit of coal to get the fire really hot before chucking on anything big. Heating is fine, water is sadly unreliable for much more than a couple of baths. The location is excellent - in the middle of a field with lots of strange lumps that might or might not be abbey, a disused railway line near by (one of us fell down a hole on it, so BE CAREFUL and take a mobile phone) which leads to a huge, very long, unused, dark railway tunnel. Great fun and possible to walk in the dark although anyone who is squeemish should take a torch. Another amazing attraction are the huge hangers, just a few miles away, that the R101 was built in; good books on this in the Abbey. You can't get in but fun to get as close as you can (disused RAF camps surround the hangers). 9/10

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